b'BC_5782_2021final_cmyk_Layout 18/8/219:46 AMPage 6Faye Schulman was born Faigel Lazebnik in 1919in the town of Lenin, on the Polish border with theUSSR. As a young woman, she apprenticed to anolder brother in his photography business and becameskilled at composition and at the technical aspects ofphotography, including the developing and printingof film.In August 1942, most of the Jews of Lenin, includingmost of Faye Schulmans family, were marched totrenchesoutsidetownandmurdered. AbouttwodozenJewswithskillsthoughttobeuseful,includingFayeSchulman,werespared.SheFaye Schulman with fellow partisans in eventually escaped to the forest and managed to join1944. a partisan brigade, becoming a nursefor which shehad heretofore had no trainingand insisting ontaking part in combat. She performed surgeries underthe most primitive conditions. Retrieving her camera (which she kept for the rest of her life), shebegan taking photographs, and the images she created, under the most difficult circumstances,have played an important role in documenting partisan life.After the war she married, emigrated to Canada, and spent many years giving talks and writingabout her experiences. She wrote A Partisans Memoir, which reproduces many of her images,and was one of the subjects of a PBS documentary. She died in 2021 at the age of 101.'